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I don't think the comparison is particularly valid; other animals don't exactly subject one another to industrial-scale murder. I would be much more inclined to
by rosser 11y ago
I don't think the comparison is particularly valid; other animals don't exactly subject one another to industrial-scale murder. I would be much more inclined to agree with you if every animal that a human ate, it killed, cleaned, and prepared itself.
- TeMPOraL 11y ago> I would be much more inclined to agree with you if every animal that a human ate, it killed, cleaned, and prepared itself. It shouldn't matter. Whether 7 billion people all kill and prepare their own animals, or most of them outsource it to the few running the meat industry, it's more-less the same amount of animals killed, for the very same purpose.
- rosser 11y agoI disagree. Numbers are irrelevant. The GP's contention was that if non-human animals think, then maybe they're making a conscious decision to consume the flesh of another creature. We, buying meat at the store, are radically disconnected from the life we're consuming. Killing the animal you're eating is a visceral experience — literally, there are viscera involved. I submit that we would be much less sanguine about meat if we were more involved in its consumption than, "purchase, remove shrink-wrap, heat."